They once flocked to Northern India for the Taj Mahal, now visitors come for the authentic recipes, says Joanna Sugden

With two gas rings, a concrete worktop and no sink, the small lilac kitchen in
Udaipur doesn’t look like the most popular attraction in India’s answer to
Venice. But the backpackers and holidaymakers beating a path to its door
tell a different story.

They are here for Shashi’s cooking class. If you believe TripAdvisor, this is
the “number one tour” in the Rajasthani city of breathtaking lakes and
palaces.

Shashi Sanadhya, the widow who runs the classes in her two-room home, washed
clothes for a living until three years ago. Then some Irish tourists who
befriended her two sons asked